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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374901Author Nikolai LeskovFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The New York Review of Books,... -
Night Owls by Nikolai Leskov 9780241752197
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.0090 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'Condemned to... -
The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Leskov's stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and garrulous storytellers,... -
Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District by Nikolai Leskov 9780648238829
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648238829Author Nikolai LeskovFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint SkomlinPublisher... -
The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District by Nikolai Leskov 9788027308194
Booksplease Price: £6.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027308194Author Nikolai LeskovFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint e-artnowPublisher... -
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories by Nikolai Leskov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is now the basis for an acclaimed new film starring Florence PughNikolai... -
Cross-Eyed Lefty and the Steel Flea by Nikolai Leskov 9780648182658
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648182658Author Nikolai LeskovFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint SkomlinPublisher... -
Russia's Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov by Vadim Shneyder 9780810142480
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Russia's Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by... -
The Saga of Goesta Berling by Selma Lagerlof
Booksplease Price: £13.55One hundred years ago, Selma Lagerloef became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She assured her place in Swedish letters with this sweeping historical epic, her first and... -
The Livres-souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time by Anne Freadman 9781906540937
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £55.51This book investigates Colette's variegated generic choices as so many ways of 'telling time'. It presents an argument that develops through a five-part sequence, named in homage to the sonata form:... -
The Livres-souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time by Anne Freadman
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81This book investigates Colette's variegated generic choices as so many ways of 'telling time'. It presents an argument that develops through a five-part sequence, named in homage to the sonata form:... -
The Aphorism and Other Short Forms Ben Grant 9780415829298
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contemporary theory and takes on a new relevance when we... -
The Aphorism and Other Short Forms by Ben Grant
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contemporary theory and takes on a new relevance when we... -
Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape by Julie A. Buckler
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.60Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of... -
Shostakovich and His World by Laurel E. Fay
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.39Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure... -
Hagiography and Modern Russian Literature by Margaret Ziolkowski 9780691604657
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68The heritage of medieval hagiography, the diverse and voluminous literature devoted to saints, was much more important in nineteenth-century Russia than is often recognized. Although scholars have... -
Mikhail Sholokhov and His Art by Herman Ermolaev 9780691614595
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.49Treating Sholokhov's art and life against the Soviet political background, the author considers the episodes in his life that influenced his writing and then shows how one-sided commitment to party... -
The News under Russia's Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press by Louise McReynolds 9780691607283
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.75In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating... -
Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire by Gabriella Safran
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like... -
Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a... -
Dostoevsky in Context by Deborah A. Martinsen 9781108712736
Booksplease Price: £32.52This volume explores the Russia where the great writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), was born and lived. It focuses not only on the Russia depicted in Dostoevsky's works, but also on the Russian life... -
Dostoevsky in Context by Deborah A. Martinsen 9781107028760
Booksplease Price: £82.02This volume explores the Russia where the great writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), was born and lived. It focuses not only on the Russia depicted in Dostoevsky's works, but also on the Russian life... -
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early... -
Russian Literature by Andrew Baruch Wachtel 9780745636856
Booksplease Price: £61.35For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known... -
Russian Literature by Andrew Baruch Wachtel 9780745636863
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.99For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known...